Posted on 07/13/2012 7:04:50 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Let's start out with the recognition of perhaps the WORST special effect ever seen in a movie was the flaming paper plate on a line passing itself off as a flying saucer in "Plan Nine From Outer Space." However, I recently saw a movie that might have had a special effect just as lame.
It was "Knights of the Round Table," starring Robert Taylor as Lancelot. Anyway, Lancelot, along with King Arthur and some allies were at a meeting at Stonehenge. The bad guys (Modred) suddenly decided to attack the Arthur crew. So Lancelot saves the day by pushing one of the Stonehenge rocks over to prevent the bad guys from getting to them while they made their escape. What made the scene especially ridiculous was that Lancelot really didn't even put much of an effort into shoving over that Stonehenge rock. And when the Stonehenge rock hit the ground, it was with the gentle thud of styrofoam rather than a crash of several tons worth of rock. Oh, and how could Stonehenge manage to stand all these years since from we saw in the movie just a 60 mph wind would have knocked those Stonehenge rocks to the ground?
I wonder if Robert Taylor or any of the other actors at the time objected to participating in such an incredibly lame special effect.
“Va-va-voom, Ralphie Boy!”
Euwwww. LOL.
What, no mention of the aliens from the 1956 classic, Warning from Space?
Allison Hayes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSccwmmrS5A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=T5YTXnnQjC4
Attack of the Eye Creatures. I can forgive an occasional visible zipper, but when they just put a head on one of the extras wearing a black shirt and pants to try to blend into the background you know that "they just don't care" as MST3K put it.
And speaking of MST3K, they had some real stinkers from Japan which made Godzilla look like a Kurasawa film. I'm thinking of ones like Prince of Space and Invasion of the Neptune Men. Why bother filming two explosions when you can show the same one twice.
I love swamppeople but LOL at your observation, it never occured to me..
I think I cracked up for five minutes straight when I saw that scene for the first time, so terrible.
Dune.
Clash of the Titans.
I think thats Barney Frank is drag......:O)
Best? I guess you like them fat.
This submarine chase from an Indian movie is my candidate for worst special effects ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6puzyo9Hw
The scene in the episode of Dark Shadows where Barnabas Collins was bitten by the bat that turned him into a Vampire. Worse Bat effect ever, hilarious scene.
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